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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you think the alternate GOP Covid proposal will look like?
Last edited Sun Jan 31, 2021, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Will it even by a good faith proposal or just a delaying tactic?
Edit: GOP senators offer Covid-19 relief counterproposal to force talks with White House back to middle
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/politics/covid-relief-republican-senators-biden/index.html
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Then they will provide us with the best plan anyone has ever seen two weeks later. It is always two weeks from now.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,022 posts)The GOP is a 24/7 ad campaign to gain or stay in power. Ideas? Solutions? Hah!
Turin_C3PO
(14,077 posts)that doesnt help individuals or local communities.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)Probably less than $1k direct payments, cuts in funds to state/local gov't for vaccination, limits to Medicaid...
Whatever, it'll most likely be crap designed more to delay the process than to actually help anybody but Big Pharma and Big Med.
Give them one day, tops, then ram the Biden plan through.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Everybody dies.
ret5hd
(20,524 posts)fmdaddio
(192 posts)tinrobot
(10,916 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)It's as if the problem is 100 hungry children, and the Dems have put forth legislation to feed 100 children, but the Repubs are proposing legislation to feed 50 children.
Nonstarter.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Tell 'em to go pound sand and then head to reconciliation.
Joe's too much a gentleman to say that, though.
Give them a day or two, THEN tell 'em to go pound sand and head to reconciliation.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Chased by a dose of hydroxychloroquine.